Subject: [Tweeters] Setting my alarm clock for dawn (trained by
Date: Feb 7 19:04:21 2012
From: Marian Quinn - marianq at comcast.net
Hello WA birders,
I am a new subscriber on account of coming out your way to spend some time with a close relative who is living out his last days with pancreatic cancer.?He too loves the birds, they are one of our connections to each other even across 3,000 miles .? ?I am from Phila PA area and subscribe to the PABIRDS listserv .? While it is most uncharacteristic of me to post to a listserv so quickly (it took a year before I posted to PABIRDS) your topic of setting the alarm for the birds is near and dear to my?heart.? My iphone is filled with pre-set alarms ; as sunrise gets earlier?in spring/later in fall ?I change over to the necessary alarms t o get up in time to feed whatever migrants and residents are coming to the feeders.? This time of year the first to arrive are the dark-eyed juncos and the white-throated sparrows about 20 minutes before sunrise.? As I am setting up the feeders I know who will wake up first, who wakes up second, and?how long from their first calls?before they are? under my white pine tree . Right now it?is the resident male cardinals who?sound the first notes?before sunrise, about 6:40 a.m.??This January for the first?time ever I?have eastern bluebirds coming to the feeders, perhaps because of some fruit or berry crop failure, we're not sure.? In any event last Sunday morning while still in pre-dawn light one landed on my jacket? as I bent over to pick up their? chipped peanut feeder to hang it .? Hungry bluebird!? In 20 years of birdfeeding that has never happened with any species.?? Here's a few bluebird photos:?? ?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.333464980009103.79272.100000368124994&type=3&l=03dbb70091
I hope you don't mind the guest post.? It will be a comfort to me while I'm?with my uncle and other family in?the ?area?to see your bird sightings posts and have a sense of who's where bird-wise, you know how that is, you need their spirits with you times like these.
Best,
Marian Quinn
West Chester PA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leah Wegener" <dlwegener at msn.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 8:12:22 PM
Subject: [Tweeters] Setting my alarm clock for dawn (trained by hummingbird)
Yes, I, too, have been trained to get up at dawn and put the hummingbird feeder out on icy mornings.?
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Our Anna's female sits in the oak tree and makes a "teep" sound which means "Where is my feeder?".
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Totally worth it.??? --Leah in Centralia
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